George Adu
George Adu is a Lecturer in Economics at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Content by George Adu
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Publication - Project Report
Powering the powerless: Economic impact of rural electrification in Ghana
13 Aug 2018 | George Adu, John Bosco Dramani, Eric Oteng-Abayie
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Blog post
The economic impacts of investing in rural electrification in Ghana
Ending energy poverty is recognised by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7. In Ghana, significant progress in extending electricity access across the country has been made, particularly in rural areas where access levels rose from 1% to 63% of the population between 1991 and 2014. However, evidence on the economic benefits of rural electrification projects remains...
1 Aug 2018 | George Adu, John Bosco Dramani, Eric Oteng-Abayie
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Publication - Policy Brief
Powering the powerless: Economic impact of rural electrification in Ghana
Ghana has made significant progress in extending electricity access across the country, particularly in rural areas where access levels rose from 1% to 63% of the population between 1991 and 2014. However, huge capital investment is still required to achieve universal access to electricity by the year 2020 under the National Electrification Scheme. The economic benefit...
12 Feb 2018 | George Adu, Eric Oteng-Abayie, John Bosco Dramani
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Project
Powering the powerless: Economic impact of rural electrification in Ghana
Even though rural electrification projects in Ghana started in 1970s, less than 50% of rural households in Ghana have access to electricity, compared to 72-75% at the national level. This suggests wide disparities in electricity access between rural and urban households, which could explain a large share of the observed inequalities in income and welfare between rural and...
28 Sep 2017 | George Adu, Eric Oteng-Abayie, John Bosco Dramani
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Publication - Working Paper
An empirical analysis of exchange rate dynamics and pass-through effects on domestic prices in Ghana
5 Nov 2015 | George Adu, Amin Karimu, Justice Tei Mensah
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Publication - Policy Brief
An empirical analysis of exchange rate dynamics and pass-through effects on domestic prices in Ghana
14 Aug 2015 | George Adu, Amin Karimu, Justice Tei Mensah
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Project
Exchange rate and macroeconomic stability: Determinants and Pass-through effects
Since the liberalization of the foreign exchange market in the mid-1980s (as a component of the broad structural adjustment and economic reforms programmes), the rate at which a unit of Ghana’s currency (the cedi) exchanges for the US dollar and the currencies of her major trading partners has seen substantial swings. On the average, the cedi has depreciated against the...
13 Feb 2015 | George Adu, Amin Karimu, Justice Tei Mensah
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Project
Regional Analysis of Inflation Dynamics in Ghana: Persistence, Causes and Policy Implications
Welfare implications of aggregate inflation are fairly well-documented in the literature and are also fairly intuitive. However, the potential welfare losses that can be attributed to inflation (and persistence of inflation) in sectors that can be considered to be core/necessities are, arguably, likely to be higher, for example, food and fuel. At the same time, keeping...
1 Feb 2014 | Paul Alagidede, Simeon Coleman, George Adu